Lorrie Goldstein

Lorrie Goldstein is the Editor Emeritus of the Toronto Sun and a member of the Canadian News Hall of Fame. Born and raised in Toronto, he currently writes political columns and editorials for the Toronto Sun and Sun Media. Joining the Sun in 1978, he previously served as Comment Editor, Senior Associate Editor, City Editor, Queen's Park Columnist and Bureau Chief, Toronto City Hall reporter, general assignment reporter and feature writer. Active on social media, Lorrie says being a political columnist for a major daily newspaper is one of the most rewarding and fun jobs anyone can have in journalism, and that anyone who complains about having to do it probably isn't doing it right.

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LATEST STORIES BY LORRIE GOLDSTEIN

GOLDSTEIN: The beautiful music of Dave McLaughlin

His latest fundraiser is Saturday in honour of Nelson Mandela and Lincoln Alexander as part of Black History Month

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February 21, 2025 Toronto & GTA

GOLDSTEIN: Despite his denials, Carney is definitely a politician

Liberal prime-minister-in-waiting Mark Carney keeps insisting he’s not a politician, but he’s selling himself short.

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February 19, 2025 Columnists

Liberal leader candidate Mark Carney at the Riverview Park annual Winter Carnival in Balena Park, Sunday, Feb. 9, 2025 in Ottawa.

GOLDSTEIN: Liberals’ $200B climate plan needs a forensic audit

But we'll never get an audit if the Liberals win this year's election

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February 15, 2025 Columnists

GOLDSTEIN: Federal Liberals can't be trusted with the economy

Given their dismal economic record after 10 years in power, it’s hard to comprehend why anyone would trust the federal Liberals to be responsible stewards of the nation’s finances heading into this year’s election.

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February 12, 2025 Columnists

GOLDSTEIN: Trudeau’s absurd greenhouse gas emission targets impossible to achieve, study finds

One of the absurdities of lame-duck Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s pledge to have Canada achieve “net zero” industrial greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 is that since he won’t be in power then, he can say anything he likes now, regardless of its real-world feasibility.

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February 11, 2025 Columnists

Lame duck Prime Minister Justin Trudeau can pledge any greenhouse gas emission target he wishes for 2050. He won't be around much longer.

GOLDSTEIN: Trudeau Liberals say they were wrong about almost everything so re-elect them

But the Liberals will inevitably revert to their old ways if they happen to pull off this political miracle

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February 8, 2025 Columnists

Pictured are former Bank of Canada governor Mark Carney, left, and former finance minister Chrystia Freeland.

GOLDSTEIN: Mark Carney is campaigning as Pierre Poilievre-lite

Assuming Liberal leadership frontrunner Mark Carney wins his party’s crown and becomes our next prime minister on March 9, voters in the next federal election will have a choice between a red-meat conservative — Pierre Poilievre — and a vegetarian version — Carney.

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February 6, 2025 Columnists

GOLDSTEIN: Build more pipelines to tariff-proof our economy

In the real world, fossil fuels are going to remain the dominant source of energy globally for a long time

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February 4, 2025 Columnists

GOLDSTEIN: Why we can’t trust the Liberal reversal on carbon taxes

Even as the federal Liberals seemingly abandon the carbon tax, they refuse to admit they were wrong to introduce it

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February 1, 2025 Columnists

GOLDSTEIN: Carney’s ‘new’ climate change plan a word-salad of nonsense

Leading Liberal leadership contender Mark Carney unveiled his new climate change plan Friday accusing Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre of lying to Canadians by telling them they have to choose between the environment and the economy, and then he told Canadians a far bigger whopper of his own.

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January 31, 2025 Columnists